An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. Viagra generika
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on coversyl Obama’s plan”.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no Buy Viagra Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
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When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. Buy viagra
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Viagra o levitra
Could not be any simpler than that.
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Things are seldom as simple as that.
In a class, the basic assumption is that all students are getting the same quality of education and merit is a direct function of their efforts.
In a society, everyone does not have the same set of minimum basic opportunities. If these can be provided, then merit can be a sole criterion.
Also, imagine a system where the good graders get to choose the syllabus for the coming semesters. Would you call such a system fair ? [ It is what unrestricted capitalism is like, policies are largely influenced by the mighty and powerful ]
Maybe you’re right but maybe not. I think a completely free system allows anyone to become powerful if they work hard enough so basically if you feel the rich and the powerful influence the policies of the system, then you should try to become rich and powerful. The question is, in which system can you become rich and powerful more easily? The system can never be perfect but I think the socialist system is certainly the more unfair one.
Also awful power is what that is in the hand of the socialist leader. Or here, the teacher who divides the grades. This power is absolute and cannot be challenge. In a free economy, even the most powerful are challenged and even beaten by the better ones. Google > MS.
The thing about analogies is that they can be used to prove or disprove anything. If the experiment were to be carried on further…
The students would realise that social loafing would only result in a Fail grade for everyone so they start collaborating; teaching each other concepts, working together so that all of them get good grades.
Also, here you’re assuming that the pay-off is a grade. If you add another pay-off – if everyone has an B+ or better grade, they get a scholarship, or maybe they don’t need to pay any fees. One might find students working harder, helping out each other in their preparation etc…
Of course, this too suffers from the inherent problem that all analogies suffer from.
Well personally, I think what you’re saying at least can never happen.
The reason being: What are the odds that all the people will collaborate with each other? Slim
What are the odds of the people thinking there will be plenty of rotten eggs who wouldn’t collaborate and the efforts of the rest will go in vain? Plenty. And since there will be plenty of people who’d think this way(unless you’re living in Eutopia), chances are good that, once again, no one will work.
Besides, history has shown plenty of times, what you’re saying has never worked in any case!
If there is a reward for everyone, even then the general tendency would be: “Koi na koi mehnat kar hee lega yaar”
very interesting post.